What do you think of Blake Lively?

Imagine if one of us text our male colleagues about ‘Ball Busting Never with Teeth’ and talked about ‘Suppositories’. We would be sacked!

He should have recorded everything from then.

JB does come across badly too he is a bit creepy but in his texts I can’t see anything as graphic sexually as hers. He does talk about babe on boob which made me want to 🤮 But, on balance BL’s texts are much more sexually explicit!

She's a ball buster! 😂😂😂

Obnoxious, spoilt and thinks she's all that and a bag of chips!

The smarmy, unfunny and insincere husband is repulsive.

I’m working my way through the website of text and email communications that Justin Baldoni has made available and I am open-mouthed at her audacity and some of the moves she pulled. Wow.

I saw the texts in the paper RE: Baldoni trying to destroy her ina. Smear campaign, but quite honestly I think he was perfectly justified if he did because her actions were unhinged.

The court filings make for interesting reading (there is a lot to read through).
I don't think BL likes being told 'no'
A lot of the text exchanges that have been released between all three are a lot of sycophantic, cringey nonsense.
JB and his friends and family had to sit in the basement at his own film premiere, WTAF?
The timing of BL NYT article is interesting.
Neither BL, JB (or RR for that matter) come out of this looking good and may well have tanked their own careers.

Hollywood is a toxic cesspit.

I'll be watching to see how this develops but I'd be surprised if it got as far as a court trial.

I think that there is huge smear campaign against them both by their own different PR companies. I think that they are 2 people who had a falling out. They should both grow up a bit rather than trying to destroy each other. I don't think that either is necessarily in the 'right' and I think it is impossible for anyone to know without having been in the same room as them both.

JB’s lawyer is one Bryan Freedman.

Mr Freedman has allegedly also faced legal issues of his own. He and two other university students were accused of sexual assault in the 1980s.

According to Insider, he agreed to pay $40,000 (£32,000) as part of a larger settlement before the case went to court, but did not admit liability, the website claimed. Mr Freedman has not publicly commented on the case and did not respond to a request for comment.

A 1986 article in the UC, Berkeley student newspaper, the Daily Californian, reviewed by BBC News, reported Mr Freedman and as many as eight others were accused of assault and sexual battery in a $600,000 suit.

The lawsuit quoted by the newspaper claimed the incident "included, but was not limited to forcibly touching, kissing, embracing and molesting" the alleged victim against her will after a party in October 1985.

The article notes that Mr Freedman issued a denial and said he resigned from a position from the Associated Students of the University of California in order to improve his chances at attending a graduate law school.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65389844

I've not read the court documents but I've read some of the text exchange and listened to the late night voicemail JB left. I don't know, but I get the feeling he's a creepy man pretending to be a nice man. It all seems so over the top the way he texts/talks.

Read the court documents

I also believe it's been documented he is using the same disgusting PR company that Depp used.

Why does that mean he is guilty?

Blake worked with Woody Allen & was criticised by Dylan Farrow?

You’re not the only one.

The reporter was out of line. If I walked into a professional setting, and the first thing that was said was a comment about my body, I’d be angry too.

I think she's doing an excellent job of destroying her own career. But never with teeth.

I know nothing much about her.

I believe Baldoni behaved inappropriately. I also believe it's been documented he is using the same disgusting PR company that Depp used.

I must admit I must be the only person who thinks the reporter was out of order referring to her bump. They had just met and if anyone I had just met at a work event referenced a bump I would have been offended too.

I will wait for all the evidence but BL’s ‘Ball Busting No Teeth’ and ‘Suppository’ comments are not professional and like I said could be seen as sexual harassment too.

Why? What's he done?

What did he do that was unprofessional?

There was always an intimacy coordinator employed for the production. BL refused to meet with her pre production (but JB did) and there is raw video footage of BL trying to act as her own intimacy coordinator on set and directing JB how to pull her close to him in a particular scene. I would have felt very uncomfortable with the way she was behaving in that situation if I was JB.

Oh but to answer question, I was shocked watching a video where she said “I like your bump (too)” in response to the Journalist commenting on BL’s baby bump.

Also thought the Baldoni tests were next level full of themselves but not just BL and her fire breathing and pet Taylor swift dragon, but all of them, even Ryan. I had no idea Hollywood people carry on and talk such utter nonsense. They really were just all massaging each others but holes by text and now they’re clogging up the courts with it.

There’s something really unpleasant about the way the media are slanting a lot of this and I don’t want to partake in trashing another woman. Whatever happened has happened in a work environment and it should be reviewed and scrutinised in an appropriate setting. Not trial by media.

I don’t get the dynamic on set. Even if there was no intimacy coordinator, did she not have assistants to call over or people in her corner ? Were there not people in her corner watching the scenes to ensure nothing untoward happened ? Incase she needed a witness.

Genuine questions, I don’t understand how this had happened to someone that’s relatively powerful.

I know nothing of her other than through reading a couple of articles on the BBC recently which basically went through her claims and debunked them based on the evidence available. So I guess my opinion of her is she is dishonest.

I think she's a vindictive "mean girl" type of woman who thought her status in Hollywood makes her immune to criticism. Her and Ryan Reynolds always felt like the smug, performative couple making silly social jokes about each other because they loved how it would be picked up by the press. I remember on Tiktok last summer when people suddenly started to turn on her for being too frivolous in promoting a movie about domestic violence. To be honest, the movie looks pretty shit and not worth a 400M lawsuit on either side.

The only reason I'm more inclined to believe Baldoni is that it make no sense for a lesser known movie producer to go out of his way to smear or sexually harass an actress so much higher up than him on the fame ladder. It seems more like a working relationship turned sour, and Blake got angry and wanted to get petty revenge by publicly destroying his reputation and career.

For anyone who don't know the details, the lawsuit was filed in mid December and announced with a big article in the NY Times. Tiktokers managed to find metadata embedded in the images from the article that dated all the way back to October, labelled with words like "smear". It was obvious that the NYtimes were complicit with Blake Lively months before it was filed. Seems very nasty and unorthodox for a sexual harassment case. If she was genuinely "harassed", she would file the case and hope for justice. You don't get in contact with the NY Times and work on a high profile publicity smear campaign months before you involve the courts.

I don't particularly like her in interviews I think she's rude and arrogant and doesn't read the room, but I do think she should be able to go to her job and not be harassed.

I have never seen any of her films/TV series so cannot comment on her as actress

Obviously it's been hard to miss all the media/newspaper reports about her case against Baldoni

From the clips I've seen of her in interviews, I cannot say that she strikes me as a particularly nice person in any way at all

She reminds me of some awful girls in my year at school who were bullying whatsits (I won't write what I'd like to as this post will probably be deleted!) and made many other girls lives a misery- not particularly mine but I saw the impact of their behaviour towards

I digress

In a nutshell, she comes across as a thoroughly unpleasant person

But I guess she's a rich Hollywood actress so I don't suppose she's likely bothered by what any of us think...

Don't forget the suppositories message. The pivot on that was not initiated by JB.